Colonização do Brasil e Ensino de História: uma análise de documentos curriculares brasileiros e portugueses
Colonização do Brasil e Ensino de História: uma análise de documentos curriculares brasileiros e portugueses
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.6592402047
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Palavras-chave: Ensino de história; Teoria decolonial; Currículo; Colonização.
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Keywords: History education; Decolonial theory; Curriculum; Colonization.
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Abstract: This chapter is part of the master's thesis, entitled “History Education in the light of decolonial theory: a comparative analysis of the content on the colonization of Brazil in Brazilian textbooks and Portuguese school manuals (2022/2023)”, carried out at the University of Porto, which sought to investigate how the theme of the colonization of Brazil appears in Portuguese and Brazilian textbooks currently in use. Starting from current issues, such as xenophobia and racism, this investigation tried to answer how countries that were metropolises and colonies teach about this sensitive past, seeking to understand to what extent the narrative presented in these teaching instruments is Eurocentric and reinforces stereotypes of the colonized country's inferiority, instead of promoting an education for otherness that stimulates the student's critical thinking. In this chapter, however, I focus on the analysis of normative documents that deal with education in both countries, studying in the Brazilian case the Base Nacional Comum Curricular and in the Portuguese case the Aprendizagens Essenciais and the Perfil do Aluno à Saída da Escolaridade Obrigatória. These reflexions are based on important concepts of decolonial theory, mainly those developed by Aníbal Quijano and Catherine Walsh to critically analyze the choices presented in these documents, regarding the function of teaching history and content referring to the colonization of Brazil. Based on this criticism, we seek to reflect on new possibilities for thinking about history education, no longer based on a Eurocentric basis, but referenced in the epistemologies of the Global South itself.
- Luísa Moreira Palis Ventura